Students at Buen Samaritano

Today was a clinic and OR day at the Hospital Buen Samaritano. Steve, Justin, and Tammy got to observe and help Heidi in her clinic and then assist on and watch two surgeries.

Since we're not sure if people have been eating or not, we'll leave out all the "good" stories and pictures, but here are four pics we had.

Matt was at home all day, working in the studio and then cooking dinner.

Tomorrow is clinic at ASELSI. It should be a neat experience for the students to see a little more typical clinic for us. (The clinic at Buen Samaritano is much more like an American clinic - fewer patients and usually more specialized problems. ASELSI will be more like a Family Practice clinic.)

Anyway, here are the pics. The first is of Tammy holding the uterus they just took out. Patients' families here always want to see the part you took out. A little different from the U.S.!

The second is of Justin, Tammy, and Steve outside the OR, suited up and ready to go to work.

The third is of Justin taking a blood pressure in clinic and the fourth is of the crew eating lunch on the roof of the hospital. That's right, it's not ALL hard work here!